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Ken Paxton Is Beating John Cornyn…In a Race to the Bottom

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Ken Paxton’s path to becoming one of the conservative movement’s most powerful lawyers is littered with the sort of obstacles that might have brought a more reputable politician down. The third-term Texas attorney general is a law enforcement official whose own staff reported him to law enforcement; a former state representative who was later impeached […]

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DC’s Homeless Have Nowhere to Go. Trump Might Send Them to Jail.

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On the 26-mile motorcade ride from the White House to his private golf club in Northern Virginia (one of 18 in his collection), President Donald Trump observed a few tents on public land and some garbage under an overpass. Perturbed by the imagery, he issued a sweeping demand via his social media site, Truth Social: […]

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Republican Gerrymandering Schemes Target Minority Voters and Their Representatives

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Donald Trump is not particularly popular. The only recent president with lower approval ratings six months into his term was Trump, in his first term. This summer, he asked Republicans in Congress to put their political lives on the line to pass a bill that would hand tax cuts to the wealthy at the expense […]

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Report: Teen with Disabilities Detained by ICE Outside School in Los Angeles

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On Monday, a 15-year-old boy with disabilities was detained by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement outside a Los Angeles Unified School District high school at 9:30 am when he was registering for classes. KTLA 5 reported that the boy was placed in handcuffs; he was only released after both school staff and the […]

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Trump’s Homelessness Crackdown Has Been Tried Before. It Didn’t Work.

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This week, President Donald Trump announced that his administration will remove homeless encampments from Washington, DC. It came at a press conference in which he declared a public safety emergency in the nation’s capital, despite violent crime numbers hitting a 30-year low. But the announcement also illustrated something else: The way the country approaches homelessness […]

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What Is a Far-Right Ideologue Going to Do With the U.S. Institute of Peace? 

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In February, President Trump included the U.S. Institute of Peace in an executive order targeting federal entities he deemed “unnecessary” and which he planned to cut as much as he legally could. In March, the USIP’s Washington D.C. offices were invaded by armed private security as part of a brute force takeover by Elon Musk’s […]

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Desperate Towns, Empty Promises: The EV Startup That Left Three Communities Hanging

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This story was reported by Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powerful interests stalling climate action.  They came with promises of transformation: thousands of jobs, surging salaries, and a foothold in the booming electric vehicle market. Imola Automotive USA, a Boca Raton, Florida-based startup, pitched officials in small, struggling towns in Georgia, Oklahoma, and Arkansas […]

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Trump Taps Project 2025 Architect Who Wants to Do Away With the Jobs Report to Run BLS

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On Monday night, President Donald Trump announced his new pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) after firing the previous commissioner and baselessly alleging that recently released poor jobs numbers were “rigged.” Trump’s pick for the post is EJ Antoni, a conservative economist at the Heritage Foundation and a longtime critic of the […]

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Report: Half of Trump’s Judicial Nominees Have Anti-Abortion Records

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During his campaign for a second term in office, President Donald Trump claimed that he would leave abortion “to the states” if reelected. Trump has, in fact, managed to quietly shape the national abortion politics in his second term. According to a new analysis from the Associated Press, roughly half of Trump’s nominees to the […]

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Israel Has Killed Nearly 200 Palestinian Journalists in Gaza

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Since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza in October 2023, the Israeli military has killed nearly 200 Palestinian journalists, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The latest deaths include six journalists—five for Al Jazeera and one freelancer—who the Israeli military killed on Sunday in Gaza City, according to CPJ. Those killed include […]

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Texas Bill Would Allow Lawsuits Over Shipping Abortion Pills

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This story was produced in partnership with CBS News. Republican lawmakers in Texas have opened a new front in their efforts to crack down on abortion, this time with a bill that would enable lawsuits targeting the use of medication to terminate pregnancies. Their proposal would also take aim at shield laws in other states […]

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The National Guard Is Coming to DC

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Residents of Washington, DC, where crime rates have consistently fallen, can soon expect to see the National Guard patrolling the streets as a part of President Trump’s claims that violent crime is rampant in the capital. The plan, which Trump celebrated as a liberation, will also reportedly include 120 temporarily reassigned FBI agents to assist […]

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